After apprenticing with his father, the woodcarver Wenzel Jorhan (ca. 1695–1752) – who had immigrated from Bohemia in 1720 – Christian Jorhan’s journeyman years took him to Riedlingen, where he worked with Johann Joseph Christian, and then to…

Schenk learned his trade fram his father Hans Christoph and his uncle Hans before travelling as a journeyman to Mindelheim and Munich. He returned to Constance around 1660 and took over his father’s workshop soon afterwards. At first, following…

Adam Ferdinand Tietz , who changed his name from Dietz to Tietz, learned the sculptor’s trade in the workshop of his father, the sculptor Johann Adam Dietz. Afterwards hewas initially employed by the sculptor Matthias Bernhard Braun in Prague,…

Günther’s first training was with his father. In 1743, at the age of eighteen, he entered the workshop of Munich court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub as an apprentice, and remained there until 1750. In 1751/52 he worked in Mannheim for a short…

Nothing is known about the origins and education of this Netherlandish sculptor. Records show that Gerhard was in Florence in 1581, having probably worked there for some time already. He was later employed by the Fuggers, who granted him a number…

None of the works by Hans von Worms – otherwise known as Hans Bilger – that are mentioned in the sources have survived. Beginning in the mid 1470s, he executed several altarpieces for the Weissfrauenkirche and the Bernhardskapelle in Frankfurt am…

We know nothing of Hans Multscher’s training. In 1427, however, when the City Council of Ulm granted him town privileges, he proved himself to be a virtuoso schooled in the latest currents of Franco-Netherlandish sculpture, whose works in stone…

The son of a ducal stable hand, Dannecker received his initial training as a sculptor in his native city of Stuttgart. In 1776 he entered the lifelong service of the Duke of Württemberg. After being appointed court sculptor in 1780, he went to…

Egell received his formative artistic education from Balthasar Permoser in Dresden between 1712 and 1717. After returning to Mannheim, Egell was appointed court sculptor there in 1721. He played an important role in the expansion of the elector’s…

Ohmacht was initially apprenticed in Freiburg, possibly to Christian Wenzinger, and later in Frankenthal to Johann Peter Melchior, who was sculptor to the court of the electors in Mainz. In 1780 he went into business for himself. Ohmacht studied…

The son of a sculptor, Leonhard Kern apprenticed with his brother, Michael Kern the Younger, beginning in 1603, before spending his journeyman years in Italy (Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice, Padua and Mantua) from 1609 to 1614. Kern set up his own…

In this Meleager and Atalanta group, Tietz alludes to an ancient myth in which a boar is ravaging the land of King Oeneus. Some famous heroes and hunters, among them the huntress Atalanta, set out with the king’s son Meleager to hunt it down.…

Michel Erhart, who until the 1930s was entirely overshadowed in art historical scholarship by his son Gregor, is now considered one of the most important Late Gothic sculptors north of the Alps, and a considerable oeuvre has come to be attributed…

Tilman Riemenschneider is surely the most popular German sculptor of the Middle Ages and one of the best known German artists in general. He is widely seen as virtually synonymous with the German sculpture of the Late Gothic. It is not known where…